PERSONAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 14, 15 January 1913, Page 5

PERSONAL.

The Tsarevitch is confined to his bed, states a cablegram from St. Petersburg. Mr A. Hobson was yesterday elected president of the New Zealand Pharmacy Board for the current year. The death is announced at Wanganui of Mrs A. Ireson Jones, aged 84, who, with her late husband, was one of the pioneers of Wanganui. Mr H. J. Gilbert, of New Plymouth, is the successor of Mr George Bond, as manager of the seed and produce department of Messrs W. H. H. Young and Co.’s Stratford business. Mr W. G. Malone will personally represent the Stratford County Council in litigation which has arisen over the sale of the Council’s Straker waggon to an Invercargill man. The case will be heard in Christchurch.

The personal staff of Lord Liverpool is formally gazetted : Mr Gavin Macaulay Hamilton to be private secretary ; Captain Charles Shawe Shawe (Rifle Brigade) to be military secretary ; Captain Thomas Ralph EastAvood (Rifle Brigade) to be aide-de-camp.

Field-Marshall Lord Roberts, \ .C., Lord Haldane (Lord Chancellor and ex-Minister for War), Lord Rothschild, and others have inaugurated a fund for a national memorial in London to the late Field-Marshall Sir George White, V.C., the hero of Ladysmith. The Hon. John Bryce, one of Wanganui’s most distinguished pioneers, is dangerously ill. Some ten days ago Mr Bryce, Avho has been in failing health for - some time, sustained a stroke, and since then ho has been growing more and more enfeebled. At a late’ hour on Monday night, Mi Bryce Avas unconscious, and the end Avas hourly expected. Mrs Edmunds,, of Cardiff, aunt -ol Principal Griffiths, of University College, South Wales, and Monmouthshire, on November 16 celebrated hei 103rd birthday, and was the. recipient of a large number of congratulatory messages. His Majesty telegraphed as follows:—“The King » glad to be able again to send you his congratulations on your birthday, and trusts that you may continue to enjoA good health and happiness.—-Ponson-by.’* It is understood that when the hen to the British throne starts on his grand tour next year he Avill not travel as the Prince of Wales, but Avill use an incognito title. It is a curious fact that his present Majesty, who has journeyed more extensively ovei the habitable globe than any living Royal personage, has never himself made use of an incognito, but travelled either as Prince George, Duke o. Cornwall and York, Prince of Wales, or George V. The funeral of the High School boy, Harold Hirst, who was dimmed al Mokau last Aveek was held m Nm Plymouth yesterday afternoon, and was attended by a large and representative gathering of citizens anc the deceased lad’s schoolboy friends. The pall-bearers were six of his schoolmates: Sinclair, W. Ewing, Candy, Hooker, Pott, and Jenkmson. Many beautiful floral tributes Avere receiver, by tile parents of the deceased (reports the News). The interment took place at the Te Henui Cemetery, and the last sad rites were administered by the Rev. A. H. Colvile,

Mr Thomas J. Chia, a well-known Chinese gentleman, and formerly firs secretary to the Chinese Consulate, was married at Melbourne last week to Miss Eunice Camille Russell, « young lady, of Brighton, who at one time played in Mr Julius Knights Company. Subsequent to the wedding a reception was held at the On ental Hotel. Canon Hughes, of St Peter’s Church, who performed the marriage, in proposing the toast ol the bride and bridegroom, said the /wedding was going to break down th< insular prejudice of the Imghsh race, and it would tend to the blending o the two nations.